"..this song would bring tears to a glass eye." NME
        
    
Tessa Bickers


 Chasing Shadows

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1. Don't Hold On 
 
2. Chasing Shadows 
 
3. Runaway

4. My Game

5. Time 

6. The Present

7. Take Me Away

8. Wipe This Clean 

9. Isn't It?

10. Under Your Wing

11. In The Dark (the Iraq Protest Song)

 


        
    
  Self-produced, matt inlay, jewel case.
Copyright Tessa Bickers

 
    

        

            
Tessa Bickers picked up a guitar three years ago and taught herself to play... now she's written over 50 songs, and has been performing with her band up and down the UK.
With a set of lively, upbeat numbers combined with slow, thoughtful, acoustic songs she's been popular at a range of different venues.

            
Tessa writes all her own songs, and one Respect, which was written about the war in Iraq, was taken on by George Galloway's party,  as a protest song.  It was reviewed by NME Magazine, which said "this song would bring tears to a glass eye."  An interesting quote to say the least!

            
Her music has been reviewed in a number of local papers, and is described as "beautiful", "enchanting" and "haunting".
Tessa has built up an enthusiastic fan base, both through her gigs, her daytime job as a radio presenter, and through her page on myspace.com. 

            
She's recorded her own album, Chasing Shadows, and this has been selling well at gigs as well as through the web page.  She's now working with a record producer to work on a second album, which should be available this summer.

            
Last year she performed at a number of local festivals including Holcombe Music Festival and a Tsunami fundraising concert, and this year she's set to perform the opening set at a new stage being built in Warminster.  She's also putting on her own charity concert to raise money for the Chernobyl Children's Lifeline.



        
    

        

            
"Even though this is Tessa's debut album, it looks like she has all the makings of being quite a prolific songwriter that reflects on the world around us, with another CD strongly rumoured to be already in production. Chasing Shadows is a great calling card that should hopefully move Tessa's career on from 'playing in dingy clubs to drunks'. The line is only half in jest. Ms Bickers should be getting her music to a wider audience and out of the underground" Fatea Cambridge Folk Festival website.
            

"This song would bring a tear to a glass eye" NME Magazine about Tess's song In The Dark.


            
"Tessa Bickers can be many things. She can be delicate, almost brittle, I think that if she want to she could make a song about spilt milk seem like a genuine tradgedy. Alternatively, she can be strong and assertive, this is not a songwriter that's going to let something slip off the hook for fear of offending people. Truth is a double edged sword and when she wants to use it, Bicker's is more than capable of using her words and music, to slide it neatly between the ribs. It's harsh, but fair. " Neil Fatea, Folk writer